Watch in this video as she arrives at Shiz for the first time on the Gershwin Theatre stage. Kebede is a proud first-generation Ethiopian-American, Lencia graduated from Occidental College ...

When it opened in 1972, the then Uris Theatre was the first large Broadway ... the venue was renamed after famed composer George Gershwin.

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...

James Taylor appears at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize honoring Joni Mitchell ... The next musical icon to turn their songs into a stage musical will be James Taylor.